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Fri, 21 October 2011 02:59

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Patrick Leinenkugel
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Registered: June 2011

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Hello,
I like to generate a random selection (eg. 5 samples) of a population
without replacement from a one dimensional array with n samples (eg.
n=100). I tried to use the IMSL_RANDOM_SAMPLE function which works
fine if I have (k,n) dimensional arrays (k variables (e.g k=2), n
samples( e.g n=100)).
For one dimensional arrays, however, the command

samp = IMSL_RANDOM_SAMPLE(5, pop)

results in the error message: "IMSL Error: IMSL_RANDOM_SAMPLE:
Terminal error: STAT_BAD_NROW_NSAMP: NROW = 1 and NSAMP = 5. Since
there is only one invocation of this function, NROW must be greater
than or equal to nsamp."

Can anyone tell me what I do wrong or has a nother way to easily
generate random selection without replacement.
Thanks,
Patrick

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